There's a bubble inside me
that's ready to burst
and when it explodes, sweetheart,
you'll know it first!
I've nourished inside me
a secret so grand,
that a ball park won't limit
what fits in my hand.
So small at the outset
but soon it will grow,
the square root of wonderful,
doesn't it show?
Author notes
"The Square Root of Wonderful" is a title by Carson McCullers.
NB my poem has no relation to her play.
In a list
A contest entry
- Carson McCullers by Keith.
450 points, ended October 10, 2007, 4 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Thanks for reading!
Comments
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Beautiful!! Inspiring!
Thank you for sharing this wonderfully uplifting piece! Brava! Two thumbs up!!
Wishing you a wonderful journey through this winter season
~Myst~
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Thank you sweetheart, your comment and appreciation lift my spirits, too!
I hope you are feeling better and better!
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Ahh, this has brought a smile to my face and a joy to my heart on this very cold CT day. It makes me think of the wonderful buds just waiting for the sum's warmth to bring them forth in newness. Beautiful!
(It has been such a long winter and it is only mid-January!)
- joanne
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Thanks for your applause, Joanne. Our weather here has been dreary, cold and wet. It's good to remember that nothing can keep the sun from returning.
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Awe truely sweet and witty! I love this and a good choice of Gold!
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Your square root of wonderful has wonderful flow
and made me smile
not unlike a bubble that has burst on my nose.
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Thank you EH. The feeling is like that in seeing an emu running free.
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I love this poem, poet
because it tickles in the best kind of way. "It" does show! You are my hypotenuse in this poem!
You can hit top C with joy very well. [No cracks about my wife, now!
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Thank you. Ron.
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Yay! contagious happiness is simple pleasure.
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So rare to be able to use the word 'delightful'. But that is exactly the word to describe this piece... I am surprised I have not discovered your work before.
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Thank you Sullivan, I'm glad to discover you too. The title gave me such anticipation of joy, it was a pleasure to copy it down.
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This has a joyful, adolescent feel about it which is very in keeping with Carson McCullers prose. I like it. Thank you.
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What a nice beginning - There's a bubble inside me
that's ready to burst - the wonder of nature, the wonder of love and poetry, that is. So nice poem. So nice metaphors are used here. Bravo!
~Sonja~
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Thank you Sonja, I'm happy you enjoyed this. I had fun writing it, joy is a lovely meditation.
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Yes, joy and wonder ARE exponential! A sweet write from a sweet Heart (and sweetheart).
Rahad
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Thank you Rahad!
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I've read "Ballard of the Sad Cafe and "Member of the Wedding" and a few stories, but that's about it. I do know a tad about the play though which helped with your poem.
Reads well, and successfully shows that beginning bloom of intrigue and desire, even though illicit....but I won't go there, I know we sometimes disagree about things of that nature.
"Doesn't it show"
And of course it did show.
I enjoyed it Margaret.
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"Pregnant" with meaning and joy...I like the 'bursting at the seams' fun of this write, Poet...Makes me feel spring is coming and not winter...Be well, Rhonda
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Thanks for reading and understanding, Rhonda. There is a great line from the movie 2010, when everyone is frightened by the change that is happening, and they ask what it is - "Something wonderful ." When we know it is wonderful, we can't help feeling excited.
PS Thank you for mentioning "pregnant", there is the same kind of joy there.
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